Top 11 Quotes by Daniel Odier

No act loses us; no violence we're subjected to destroys us; no debasement chases out the divine, and no one can take the divine from us.

No act loses us; no violence we're subjected to destroys us; no debasement chases out the divine, and no one can take the divine from us.

Daniel Odier

Violence, Divine, Loses

Daniel Odier (1997). “Tantric Quest: An Encounter with Absolute Love”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

In Tantrism, the first thing is having the experience of touch, of profound contact with things, with the universe, without mental commotion. Everything begins there: touching the universe deeply. When you touch deeply, you no longer need to let go. That occurs naturally.

Daniel Odier

Letting Go, Profound, Touching

The capacity for total wonder is the very substance of awakening.

Daniel Odier

Substance, Awakening, Wonder

Daniel Odier (1997). “Tantric Quest: An Encounter with Absolute Love”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

The Tantric way is open to all the richness of human nature, which it accepts without a single restriction. It is probably the only spiritual path that excludes nothing and no one, and, in this way, it corresponds to the deep aspirations of men and women today.

Daniel Odier

Spiritual, Men, Today

Daniel Odier (1997). “Tantric Quest: An Encounter with Absolute Love”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

We can only touch spontaneity when we let go of dogma, old beliefs, old certitude's, because these things are what prevents the body to move freely then the body finds space to express completely. For the tantric's it is not to find belief's or to compare beliefs but to destroy beliefs To expand completely To be apart of the wave, everything is a wave, starting at the cellular level to the cosmic level To breath completely, to unfold in all directions

Daniel Odier

Letting Go, Moving, Space

You don't meditate to experiment with altered states of consciousness or whatever else. You meditate only to perceive by yourself that everything is within us, every atom of the universe, and that we already possess everything we would wish to find outside of ourselves.

Daniel Odier

Wish, Atoms, Altered States Of Consciousness

Daniel Odier (1997). “Tantric Quest: An Encounter with Absolute Love”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

There is only one way to receive transmission. When I tell you something, do it immediately, without the least wavering thought. That's it. Learn. Open your heart and act. Thought stops action. It perverts it into calculated gesture stripped of grace and efficiency.

Daniel Odier

Heart, Grace, Gestures

Daniel Odier (1997). “Tantric Quest: An Encounter with Absolute Love”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

Shiva and Shakti are indistinguishable. They are one. They are the universe. Shiva isn't masculine. Shakti isn't feminine. At the core of their mutual penetration the supreme consciousness opens.

Daniel Odier

Shiva, Consciousness, Feminine

Daniel Odier (1997). “Tantric Quest: An Encounter with Absolute Love”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

The night doesn't say to itself, 'Here comes a shooting star to interrupt my peace!'

Daniel Odier

Stars, Night, Shooting

Daniel Odier (1997). “Tantric Quest: An Encounter with Absolute Love”, p.73, Simon and Schuster

Desire, liberated from its ties to the ego, realizes that it has no other aspiration than the fullness of Mahamudra and, as it sees in the same impulse that this plenitude is innate and limitless, it no longer aspires to any realization whatsoever. There is no longer anything but intimate vibration, continuous sacred tremoring, and the absence of localization in time and space.

Daniel Odier

Space, Ties, Ego